My friend Jules told me to get rid of the eraser and I did.  Never go backwards. I feel what’s happening on the paper and if I really don’t like it, move to a different part of the paper or start over.  That was Leonardo’s advice.  I use a 9B pencil exclusively and I have found this to be the simplest and yet the most versatile technique for drawing, and the most convenient.  I guess in this way I also demonstrate my aversion to the monumental complexity and volatility found in all things digital and modern.  Totally analog and indiscrete, the 9B technology has reached it’s pinnacle and there is basically no room for improvement.  Now it’s just a matter of expressing myself.

Most of my drawings are awful.  Frank used to say the  first thousand drawings anyone makes should go straight into the garbage can,  but he died and I have kept some of mine.  The ones I like I give to friends, sometimes with a frame and sometimes without but almost always with matting.

I try to do some drawing every day while I drink a glass of wine but sometimes it turns out I just have the wine.